Homeopathic Materia Medica

KALI HYDRIODICUM

(kali-i)

(Iodide of Potassium)
The profuse, watery, acrid coryza that the drug produces serves as a sure guiding symptom, especially when associated with pain in frontal sinus. It acts prominently on fibrous and
connective tissues, producing infiltration, oedema, etc. GLANDULAR SWELLINGS. Purpura and hemorrhagic diathesis. SYPHILIS may be indicated in all stages: 1. In acute form with evening remitting fever, going off in nightly perspiration. 2. Second stage, mucous membranes and skin ulcerations. 3. Tertiary symptoms; nodes. Give material doses. DIFFUSED SENSITIVENESS-(glands, scalp, etc. Rheumatism in NECK, BACK, feet, especially heels and soles; worse, cold and wet. Iodide of Potass, in material doses acts in the different forms of Fungoid disease, (thrush, ringworm, etc.), offer simulating syphilis and bacterial diseases like tuberculosis. Symptoms like loss of weight, spitting of blood, etc. Tea-taster's cough due to inhaling the fungus; also brings about often favorable reaction in many chronic ailments even when not clearly symptomatically indicated.

Dose
Crude drug, in material officinal dosage, but remember Dr. Meyhoffer's statements in his chronic diseases of organs of respiration: "From the moment the drug produces pathogenetic symptoms, it exaggerates the function of the tissue, exhausts the already diminished vitality, and thence, instead of stimulating the organic cell in the direction of life, impairs or abolishes its power of contraction. We use, as a rule, the first dilution from 6 to 20 drops a day; if after a week no decided progress is visible, one drop of the tincture of Iodine is added to each hundred of the first dilution. In this way, the mucous tubercles, gummy deposits and ulcerations resulting therefrom in the larynx undergo a favorable termination in laryngeal syphilis." When strictly homeopathically indicated, as in acute respiratory affections the third potency.